Nassau Notes
Arts
Francesco Rosi
Film director
Italian filmmaker Francesco
Rosi will be on campus from April 4 to 6. Two
of his films, The Truce and Three Brothers,
will be shown, and he will participate in several
discussions. (See Gatherings). His visit is sponsored by the
Humanities Council, Romance Languages and Literatures,
Italian Studies, Film Studies and Jewish Studies.
Little Hitlers
Charlie Chaplin's The Great
Dictator will be screened at 7:30 pm on April 5
in 5 Robertson Hall. The first in a film series entitled
Little Hitlers sponsored by the Department of Germanic
Languages, the films will be followed by a discussion.
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Anonymous 4 |
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An exhibition of student work in ceramics is on display in the Lucas and Hillman galleries, 185 Nassau St. through April 6.
Princeton Atelier
Anonymous 4 make public
appearances April 5 through April 9 as part of
this year's Princeton Atelier.
University Concerts
The Lindsay String Quartet
will conclude a year-long series of performances of the
complete Beethoven String Quartets at 8:00 pm on April 6,
7 and 8 in Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall.
(Photo by Julian Easten)
Mayor speaks about suburbs
Susan Levin will present a
lecture on "Reinventing the Suburbs" at 4:30 pm on April
3 in 2 Robertson Hall.
For 12 years Levin has been mayor of
Cherry Hill Township, where she has focused on education,
preserving open space, advocating gun safety and supporting
fiscal reform.
Levin was NJ cochair for the 1996
Clinton-Gore campaign and a senior adviser to the Torricelli
for Senate campaign. She founded PAM's List, a fundraising
network for pro-choice Democratic women candidates running
for NJ legislative office.
Her lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow
Wilson School as part of the state and local government
series.
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James Steinberg |
James Steinberg will speak on "Two Elections: Taiwan and Russia" at 8:00 pm on April 4 in 1 Robertson Hall. He will address the implications of the two elections for US foreign policy.
Deputy national security adviser to President Clinton, Steinberg has served in the State Department as chief of staff, director of the policy planning staff, and deputy assistant secretary for analysis in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
He is the author of books on foreign and domestic policy, including An Ever Closer Union: European Integration and Its Implications for the future of US-European Relations.
His talk is sponsored by the Center of International Studies.
WWS presents former inspector general
of CIA
Fredrick Hitz will present a
lecture on "Washington Rejected: The Declining Appeal of US
Government Service" at 4:30 pm on April 4 in 1
Robertson Hall.
Hitz, former inspector general of the
Central Intelligence Agency, is John L. Weinberg/Goldman
Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor. He joined the CIA in the
late 1960s and subsequently pursued a career in government
and law.
A 1961 graduate of Princeton, Hitz
received his JD from Harvard in 1964.
His lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow
Wilson School.
Glazer examines Jewish urban
exprience
Nathan Glazer will give the
Carolyn L. Drucker Memorial Lecture on "The Jewish Urban
Experience in America: A Thing of the Past" at 8:00 pm on
April 5 in McCormick 101.
Emeritus professor of sociology and
education at Harvard University, Glazer is the author or
coauthor of many books, including American Judaism,
Beyond the Melting Pot, The Lonely Crowd, Faces in the Crowd
and most recently, We Are All Multiculturalists
Now.
Coeditor of The Public
Interest and a former editor of Commentary, he
has also served on presidential task forces on urban affairs
and education.
Ignatieff gives Tanner lecture on
human rights
Michael Ignatieff will give
the Tanner Lectures on Human Values at 4:30 pm on April 5
and 6 in Helm Auditorium, McCosh 50. Each lecture
will be followed by a reception at Prospect House.
Ignatieff, who is a writer, historian and
broadcaster, serves as a member of an independent
international commission on Kosovo.
On April 5 he will speak on "Human
Rights as Politics." A discussion after the lecture will
begin with remarks by K. Anthony Appiah, professor of
philosophy and Afro-American studies at Harvard, and Thomas
Laquer, professor of history at the University of
California, Berkeley.
The lecture on April 6, "Human
Rights as Idolatry," will be followed by remarks from David
Hollinger, history professor at Berkeley, and Diane
Orentlicher, law professor at American University.
Ignatieff, who has a PhD in history from
Harvard University, has held a senior research fellowship at
Cambridge University and visiting positions at Oxford, Notre
Dame and Princeton.
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values are
sponsored by the Center for Human Values.
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Carol Gilligan will deliver the Meredith Miller Lecture on "The Birth of Pleasure" at 4:30 pm on April 6 in Wood Auditorium, McCosh 10.
On April 7, Gilligan and Princeton trustee Marsha Levy-Warren will lead an informal discussion in 210 Dickinson. Gilligan, a psychologist, is Graham Professor of Gender Studies at Harvard University. Following publication of In a Different Voice, she began a 10-year research effort that led to the founding of the Harvard Project on Women's Psychology and Girls' Development. Gilligan's research now extends to studies of healthy resistance in young boys, the power of education, and the role of gender in human development and social change.
Both events are sponsored by the Program in the Study of Women and Gender.
Borges is subject of conference
On April 7 and
8, a conference entitled "La Literature después
de Borges: Encuentro de Escritores" will present 10 authors,
poets and critics examing the influence and legacy of
Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
Conference participants will also explore
current literary expression in Latin America. Among the
presenters are Argentinians Ricardo Piglia, author of
Plata quemada, who is currently visiting professor of
Spanish in the Department of Romance Languages and
Literatures, and Juan José Saer, who has published
more than a dozen books of fiction and poetry.
The symposium is sponsored by the
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Program in
Latin American Studies and Council of the Humanities. More
information is available at www.princeton.edu/plasweb.
Day Camp phone
The phone number for
information about Summer Day Camp at Dillon Gym is
248-3533.
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